> The > installer has too many problems. Once you get to the point of cataloging > your CDs, it can't find my CD ROM on any laptop. (2 Toshiba Satellites and > 2 Gateway Solos) And my external CD ROM is useless with this distro.
that is really strange, for I have already installed in 2 laptops and got no problem. > On the computer which I had Sarge installed on, I could not access any > SCSI devices, which I had several of. It also seemed to easy to corrupt > the system by installing the wrong program from one of the downloaded CDs. again... never found it... > (Sarge comes with 14 CDs. People like me have no idea what most of those > programs are or how they are supposed to be used.) yeah... but download only the 2 first... that was all I needed for one of the laptops... the other I used a net install. But I agree that documentation is really bad. > I think that Knoppix is probably the best distro, but FC3 comes in right > afterwards, and RH9 follows that. I might have a more favorable opinion of > Debian if it installed correctly, if it supported more hardware out of the > box, if it allowed me to log in as 'Root' (Which I sometimes need), and if > the software on the CDs worked without corrupting the operating system. I understand your point, for these are precisely the reasons why I gave up Fedora... it did not recognize half of my hardware. It could not even switch off my laptop... with debian it was REALLY smooth... so, I guess we were unlucky with some distros > But as you can see, my thoughts are not limited to Debian. I feel that > entire Linux scene is like a toy where children get things almost done, > then they loose interest and try to pass the buck on to someone else. we know it is not like that... those guys are working for peanuts, and are doing a bloody good job. Even Aple is using linux, and they have many good guys working for them... so it is not like this. I agree that linux lacks some humanities (hehe), like work from interface guys and so... but so far the linux comunity is mainly composed by technical guys... I think that is the main reason for the lack of documentation and so. Plus, I really think that seeing linux as a service provider is wrong. I think it is against its ideas. The thing that I like the most in linux is that if I hate something, I change that something and make it better... is it perfect? Well, if we were earning as much as the M$ guys it might be closer to that... but considering everything, no, it is not perfect, but it is unfair to label it as a child work. And if you worked with potato, woody and sarge, RH6, RH7... RH9, FC1 and FC2, you will see an improvement. Geez, potato would make you cry... it was a nightmare to install a network on RH6... today it is easier... Things are improving... but here is my personal advice: wake up! stop dreaming and start doing something ;-). That is precisely the linux idea. Cheers norton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
